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GHOST

5 letters, 9 points in Scrabble, 1 vowel

What GHOST Means

  1. noun: a mental representation of some haunting experience“he looked like he had seen a ghost”
  2. noun: a writer who gives the credit of authorship to someone else
  3. verb: move like a ghost“The masked men ghosted across the moonlit yard”
  4. verb: haunt like a ghost; pursue“Fear of illness haunts her”

Similar words

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

GHOST is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 9 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as G2 H4 O1 S1 T1.

Anagrams of GHOST (2)

Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.

Words Made From The Letters In GHOST

29 shorter words come out of these tiles. On a board that matters more than the long play, because a short word on a premium square often beats a long one on plain squares.

4 letter words (10)

3 letter words (11)

2 letter words (8)

Longer Words Containing GHOST

GHOST appears inside each of these, which is what makes it worth knowing as a hook.

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